Just over a year after the tragic death of their 19-month-old daughter, former Olympic skier Bode Miller and his wife Morgan have welcomed beautiful identical twin boys.
WATCH: Morgan Miller fights back tears when talking about daughter’s death
Speaking in America’s Today show, Bode announced over the phone, “They finally arrived. They had us waiting and waiting and waiting. It was driving Morgan crazy.”
And the birth was certainly a dramatic one, with Bode revealing that he and his mother ended up delivering the babies after the midwifes weren’t able to get to the couple’s home in time.
“By the time they got there, me and my mom were both holding the babies,” he revealed. “Luckily, my mom was a midwife, but she hadn’t delivered babies in 20 plus years and she never delivered twins.”
“We’re both pretty relaxed and pretty casual,” Bode continued. “But we were certainly not qualified to be doing an unassisted home delivery of twins.”
“We’re still floating from the whole experience,” Morgan added.
“It was just so amazing to have it go as spontaneously but as well as it did. And for Bode to get to deliver his identical twin boys with his mom…it was pure magic.”
Bode admitted the twins don’t have names yet, but they will get around to it soon.
“That’s one of the advantages of doing it at home. In the hospital, they won’t let you out of there unless you name,” he joked. “We’ll come up with something. They have such different personalities right now and it’s going to be cool to kind of let them be a little bit.”
Bode, an alpine ski racer and beach volleyball pro announced that he and Morgan were expecting twins back in August via Instagram.
“Twins! Identical twins!” Bode wrote on Instagram. Couldn’t be more excited to grow this beautiful family my wife and I have created. Dream come true.”
Their announcement came a little over a year after their 19-month-old daughter Emeline “Emmy” Miller died in a tragic drowning accident. Four months later, the couple welcomed their son Easton.
The new additions join the couple’s sons Easton Vaughn Rek, 13 months, and Edward Nash Skan, 4, plus Bode’s son Samuel Nathaniel, 6, and daughter Neesyn Dace, 11.
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